CronJob to call a function

[apritykin]

Trying to get Hubot to call a function (could be in the same script or from a different script) periodically every few minutes.

Currently I am able to say "hubot totalviewers" in a hipchat room and hubot will respond with the results from a function.

I would like hubot to call function "totalviewers" every few minutes without having the user required to initiate the command.

I cant seem to find any solid documentation on this.

[technicalpickles]

Check out https://github.com/github/hubot/blob/master/docs/scripting.md#timeouts-and-intervals for some examples of doing things on an interval.

[apritykin]

I tried this

module.exports = (robot) ->
    loopIntervalId = null

    robot.respond /begintalking/, (msg) ->
        if loopIntervalId
            msg.send "I am still talking....and wont stop until you tell me"
            return

            msg.send "I will begin to talk every minute now!"
            loopIntervalId = setInterval () ->
                msg.send "I am still talking....and wontstop until you tell me"
                , 1000

    robot.respond /shutup/, (msg) ->
        if loopIntervalId
            msg.send "okay okay ill stop"
            clearInterval(loopIntervalId)
            loopIntervalId = null
        else
            msg.send "You have the power to stop me, just say it!"

But it does not seem to be doing anything

[technicalpickles]

I can't tell if it's a bad copy paste or not, but it looks like the code in /begintalking to start talking is actually nested under the if loopIntervalId, so wouldn't ever be executed.

[apritykin]

Even when I move the /begintalking/ above the loopintervalId it still is not working.

module.exports = (robot) ->
    loopIntervalId = null

    robot.respond /begintalking/, (msg) ->
            msg.send "I will begin to talk every minute now!"
            loopIntervalId = setInterval () ->
                msg.send "I am still talking....and wontstop until you tell me"
                , 1000
        if loopIntervalId
            msg.send "I am still talking....and wont stop until you tell me"
            return

    robot.respond /shutup/, (msg) ->
        if loopIntervalId
            msg.send "okay okay ill stop"
            clearInterval(loopIntervalId)
            loopIntervalId = null
        else
            msg.send "You have the power to stop me, just say it!"

[apritykin]

nevermind. It works. It was indentation issue

[technicalpickles]

Excellent! I think we can close this out, unless you have any suggestions on how to make it easier to find the documentation and whatnot? Maybe use the word 'cron' somewhere so it's searchable?